Introducing PeopleInsight Essentials:
Redefining People Analytics for the Underserved Majority
By John Federman, CEO, HireRoad
At PeopleInsight by HireRoad, our mission has always been clear: help HR teams turn data into decisions. But over the past year, one truth kept surfacing in nearly every conversation I had with customers, partners, and prospects— the concept of “people analytics” feels out of reach for far too many teams.
HR leaders told us they want to show their impact. They want to move beyond manual reporting in spreadsheets, inaccurate and outdated views of their workforce data, and reacting to fires instead of proactively preventing them. But with HR viewed as a cost center and the first place for resources to be cut, they feel stuck.
I’m being asked to cut HR expenses next year – so of course I can’t invest in a new analytics solution.
My team spends ten hours a month manually putting together reports for leadership and I don’t even think they add any value.
How can I be proactively addressing retention of at-risk employees when I don’t even have an updated, accurate view of my company’s headcount across locations and business units?
Sound familiar? PeopleInsight Essentials is our response to these commonly felt pain points.
Essentials: HR Insights, Made Accessible
PeopleInsight Essentials is a foundational, low-cost version of our award-winning people analytics platform, designed for lean HR and Talent teams—particularly at organizations with fewer than 3,000 employees who lack resources to effectively access insights from their people data.
With Essentials, you get:
12 standard HR or TA dashboards for the most-valued KPIs
Integration with multiple data sources
AI-generated insights and chat-based queries
Monthly executive-ready reports
Starting at $1 per employee per month
Cancel anytime—no annual contract required
It’s everything a small team needs to start answering hard questions with confidence—without needing to secure an annual budget before seeing value.
Why Now?
The timing for Essentials couldn’t be more urgent.
In the last year, budget constraints and resource limitations were cited by HR leaders as the top barriers to adopting people analytics. And yet, the pressure on HR to demonstrate impact has only intensified. In today’s uncertain economy where job security isn’t a guarantee, you can’t wait 6-12 months to start showing results.
As a business leader, I’ll be the first to say that I don’t approve requests for additional resources without a data-backed rationale as to why it’s needed and how it will benefit the business. And since HR isn’t a revenue-generating function and often lacks access to meaningful views of their data, that ask can feel too daunting to even try to tackle.
But as teams gear up for next year’s budget planning, imagine if HR could come to the table with data-driven evidence of the ROI you could drive for your business based on your HR resources and programs.
PeopleInsight Essentials makes this possible – by putting HR in the driver’s seat, instead of having your fate decided for you. For less than the cost of a company-sponsored happy hour, you could be up and running with real workforce insights in just 5 days – allowing you to prove value fast, and ask for more resources later.
Don’t Just Take It From Us
“With PeopleInsight Essentials, we finally have a clear, consolidated view of our recruiting data from our ATS.
In just a few weeks, we were able to translate complex TA metrics into a story our leadership team could quickly understand, making it easier to showcase the value and impact of our talent acquisition efforts. Now, our conversations are backed by data we can trust.”
— Talent & Development Leader, Blanchard Machinery (800 employees)
The Bottom Line
This isn’t a scaled-down product. It’s a smart starting point for teams who want to do more with less—and finally have the tools to prove it.
Start small. Scale when ready. No risk. All insight.
👉 Request a demo today and discover how PeopleInsight Essentials can turn your HR data into a strategic advantage.
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John Federman is the CEO of HireRoad, the company behind PeopleInsight. He believes HR deserves tools as powerful and agile as the teams who use them.